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Angels of the who refuse to

Kim relives her ordeal MUMS’UNBREAKABL­E

- By Katie Dickinson Reporter katie.dickinson@trinitymir­ror.com

KIM Kardashian West has recalled the moment she tried to call her bodyguard for help as robbers broke into her flat in Paris.

In a teaser clip for TV programme Keeping Up With The Kardashian­s, she explained to sisters Khloe and Kourtney when she realised what was happening on October 2.

She said: “I was lying in bed like, ‘Should I wash my face? I’m so tired’ ... and 10 minutes later I was dozing, dozing, and then I heard pounding up the stairs.

“I thought it was you (Kourtney) and Stephanie, drunk. I was calling to them like ‘Hello?’ and there was no answer. And then at that moment when there wasn’t an answer my heart started to get really tense.” IT was the worst of times, it was the best of times...born in the same year a few miles apart, these two mums have formed an unbreakabl­e bond through a dreadful disease

In 2015 mum-of-onene Natalie Sweeney had her worldd shattered when doctors told her she had an incurable grade 3 cancerousr­ous tumour called an oligodendr­oglioma.ioma.

That same year, Angelaela Conway also underwent major brain rain surgery for a low grade tumour.

Since meeting after their heir surgeries at a local Maggie’s Centre entre young people’s group, their friendship­endship has blossomed into a fighting force, campaignin­g for vital fundraisin­g for research and awareness.

Now the pair, both 28, are s p e a k i n g out for B r a i n T u m o u r Awareness Month to get more f u n d i n g into research for tumours, awareness of young people.

Angela, from Ashington,ton, Northumber­land, said: “Natalietal­ie and I both had opportunit­iess where our tumours could have been diagnosed that were missed.

“In my own case I wass misdiagnos­ed with bulimia becauseeca­use I struggled to eat and was nauseous.

“My mum believed me but none of the doctorsrs did.”

Meanwhile mumof-one Natalie, from NATALIEE SWEENEY

as well as raising the symptomsmp­toms in nearby Bedlington, was diagnosed with cluster headaches four times when she began suffering blinding pains.

She said: “On the fifth trip my mum basically refused to leave the hospital until they gave me a scan.

“After they did a CT scan to reveal a large mass on my brain measuring 10cm by 7cm and 4cm thick, I was rushed to the RVI hospital in Newcastle for brain surgery.

“The surgeon said if my mum hadn’t insisted on a scan I wouldn’t be here now.” Natalie has since undergone months of chemothera­py and radiothera­py to keep the tumour at bay. But she said: “It is treatable but it’s not curable. I don don’tt know how long I’ve got left. “But I’ve always felt that positivity is the answer and I try to find the fun in everything.” Even when her hair started to fall out two weeks into her radiothera­py treatment, Natalie said: “I knew I had to make it fun. “I decided to separate the remainder of my hair into lots of ponytails and let all the kids in the street, including my son, cut a bobble each. “T h i s allowed all the children I am closest to b e i nv o l v e d in my j o u r n e y and meant it wasn’t such a

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Natalie Sweeney with her son Connor
Angela, above and below, during surgery Natalie Sweeney with her son Connor
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Kim Kardashian West

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